Ip Address

[MTIH1992]

How do you find out the IP address of a contact on msn? Please help. All Answers linked with the question get a *** Rateing!!!

Cheers, Matt

[Tritan]

I'm not an MSN user myself, and have not tested this out, but try this:

Start > Run > Cmd <Press Enter>
On the Command prompt, type :
netstat -a <press enter>

You will see a list of connections that your computer has at that moment .. You can deduce the IP address by matching it with Msn Messenger's PID

[OBonio]

You would need to initiate a video or voice conference to get a direct connection to the contact. Text messages get routed through a central server as far as I know and not directly to the contact. For speed, voice and video use direct connections.

During the conference, do a netstat as Tritan suggested. No need for the -a as this lists all listening sockets too, you're only interested in connected sockets. You can use -n to force it to list just the IP address instead of hostnames (it will list IP if it can't resolve to a hostname anyway).

If you do this without actually doing anything else on the internet (web browsing, p2p downloads etc) the IP address should be apparent.

[johntheplamf]

Hi, can i have a ***rating?

[Sasha13]

lol!!!

[OBonio]

Just an addendum... there is a program called aports that lists what sockets a program is using. It's handy for detecting any dodgy stuff that's managed to install on your pc too..

http://www.protect-me.com/freeware.html

Norton AV rates this program as a security risk, but only in the fact that it can be used by hackers. They should really rate ping aswell if that's their philisophy. Other than that, it's a very handy util.

[Tejaa]

To find out the Ip address make use of this site http://www.ip-details.com/ip-search/
i used this site for finding out the Ip address .
it provides information at free cost ..